Samuel Frederick Biery Jr. (born 1947) is the Chief Judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of TexasBorn in McAllen, Texas, Biery received a B.A. from Texas Lutheran College in 1970 and a J.D. from Southern Methodist University School of Law in 1973. He was in the United States Army Reserve from 1970 to 1976, and was in private practice in San Antonio, Texas from 1973 to 1978. He was a judge on the County Court at law number two, Bexar County, Texas from 1979 to 1982.